Larry Ellison protects his investment
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From Harold Meyerson:
On Thursday night, David Ellison—whose allowance from his father Larry has enabled him to build a vast media empire—hosted a private dinner in honor of Trump at the newly renamed (by Trump) Trump U.S. Institute of Peace, several stone’s throws from the Lincoln Memorial (not named by Lincoln, btw). The Ellisons’ purchase last week of Warner Bros. Discovery, putting it under control of Paramount Skydance, which they own, must pass antitrust muster with the Trump administration’s Justice Department. Not surprisingly, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was also a dinner guest, as were Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Deputy President and Nativist Supremo Stephen Miller. Lest that fail to demonstrate deference sufficiently, Miller and WarSec Pete Hegseth were reportedly the guests of CBS News two nights later at the Washington Hilton gala.
Papa Ellison has been a major donor to Trump’s presidential campaigns and his PAC, while Paramount has shelled out for Trump’s ballroom. Moreover, once Jr. Ellison’s purchase of Paramount gave him ownership of CBS, he responded to Trump’s lawsuit against the network for its coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign by ordering the network to pay off Trump in the amount of $16 million.
Inasmuch as the Ellisons’ dinner coincided with political journalists’ big weekend, and in case that $16 million wasn’t enough, their soiree was also intended to show Trump how much their own journalists at CBS News really liked him. CBS News chief Bari Weiss, whom Ellison had hired on the strength of her anti-woke and pro-conservative politics, sat alongside Jr. Ellison at Trump’s table, though The New York Times reported that “several CBS News journalists said they were taken aback by the existence of the dinner.” Politicized news media we have always, in varying degrees, had with us, but the network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite was known for setting the mainstream mass media’s non-fawning, nonpartisan news coverage standards of the 20th century. And not even the fawning, partisan Murdoch/Ailes gnomes at Fox News had ever contemplated hosting a dinner honoring a sitting president. Which is to say, the norm-shattering D.C. event of last week wasn’t Saturday’s correspondents’ dinner, even with the attempted assassination factored in; it was the Ellisons’ and their CBS News underlings’ supine prostration before the altar of Trump.
How about a little help in the editing room? TNR:
CBS News’s 60 Minutes cut out large portions of its interview with President Trump in which he rambled about his ballroom, how hot his Secret Service agents are, and how the No Kings protests are just like the Ku Klux Klan.
An analysis by Decoding Fox News revealed that many portions of the interview, which took place Sunday following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, simply never made it to air.
When CBS’s Norah O’Donnell asked Trump plainly why so many people seemed to want to kill him, Trump pivoted to his usual laundry list of accomplishments, like how the U.S. is the “hottest country in the world,” before going off the rails.
“They emptied our prisons into our country. They have mental institutions, insane asylums, into our country. And I don’t know if that’s controversial to say we have to move those people out, but we have and, but it is from the standpoint you’re doing something and you’re doing something that’s good,” he said. “Things like, men playing in women’s sports, I’m against it. Things like transgender for everyone. I’m against that. There’s so many things that I’m against. I don’t think they’re controversial. I think the other side is controversial, but I do a lot of things and I get things done.”
That wasn’t included in the interview that aired on the network. CBS also cut out the president’s massive rant against the No Kings protests. His broadcast answer was, “Well the, you see the reason you have people like that is you have people doing ‘No Kings’. I’m not a king. What am I, if I was a king, I wouldn’t be dealing with you.” His actual answer was much more troubling.
“You know, I’m not a king.… I see these No Kings which are funded just like the [Southern Poverty Law Center] was funded. You all that Southern Laws, financing the KKK and lots of other radical, terrible groups. And then they go out and they say, Oh, we’ve got to stop the KKK. And yet they give them hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. They work. It’s a total scam run by the Democrats. It shows you that, like Charlottesville, Charlottesville was all funded by the Southern Law,” Trump said—a completely outrageous claim given that neo-Nazis and white supremacists like Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes were there. “That was a Southern Law deal too. And it was done to make me look bad. And it turned out to be a total fake. It basically was a rigged election. This was a part of the rigging of the election.”
Trump also claimed that CBS paid him $38 million in his settlement against the network for their editing of a Kamala Harris interview. They actually agreed to send $16 million to his presidential library.
“I’ve also won a lot of money from fake news media where they write falsely about me. And not that I want to sue people because I don’t. But I bring lawsuits against the fake news and brought lawsuits against your network, and you paid me $38 million because you did something that was so horrible with Kamala,” he said.
The edits CBS made here are severe, and depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest.
Case you pondering, the SPLC thing is a pure fascist fabrication. The SPLC paid informants in their campaign against the KKK, which is link to the real world that Fox News Grandpa is referencing.
Larry Ellison and the rest of them need to be expropriated, while Trump and all of his main minions need to be in prison, at a minimum. The notion that after this open sewer of universal political corruption and plutocratic banditry we can or should go back to the status quo is absurd.
Hey at least David Axelrod agrees with me:
Utterly useless, the lot of them.